The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-29
PlTH AND POINT.


Once in peoples mouths. It's hard
to get out them. : Glasgow Herald
"A woman will never put any
thing in her pocket that she can hold
in her mouth. Judge.
Most farmers like to smoke. and
still they are not fond of the weed. =
Burlington Free Press.
When man is twenty-five he
knows something; when he is forty
five he wishes he knew something. -
Boston Courier.
Among the zulus young people
fight and get married. Here they
get married and fight. 7eras SJt-
tngs.
my motto is, Live and let live. ;"
said the soldier, as he turned his back
to the enemy and fed from the battle
field.
"A Hudson young man has been
arrested for ''pure laziness' and being
a 'drag" upon his father.-Hingston
Freeman.
Yes" said Fogg, "as success
have always been failure; but as a
failure have been an unqualified sue
cess. accident Neaos.
The mouth is the window to the
intellect. =. Whitehall Times. The
trouble is, however, that too many men
are all window.
Scene: Grammar class. Dialogue
between teacher and Johnnie. -Teach-
er-"What is the future of he drinksP'
Johnnie-.He is drunk"
When we realize with what celebrity
a goat can separate a man from his sur
roundings, it is difficult to understand
why but SHOULD be called conjunc-
ton Yonkers Gazette.
An advertiser offers for sale a
'1ounge hair-picker." The public
would like to know whether it will also
pick hairs off the shoulders of coate
Burlington Free Press.
There are good many married
men in this world who know all about
what model wife should be, but who
have very hazy ideas about the compo-
nent elements of a model husband.
Mrs. Walspill- Even the dress she
went to court in last year is not yet
paid for. Madame Fichu herself told
me so only yesterday" Miss Num-
stay-''Oh, my dear, that is Madame
Fichu's well-known way of reminding
her customers of their little outstand.
ing bills. Fun.
Has Nature Struck
An honest man is Natures noblest work.
Once seen few hope again to see his like.
In fact their scarcity makes some folks say
That Nature must be out upon strike.
-Siftings.
"A little Indian girl said to her
teacher:-''We have not prayed for
the poor" Her teacher replied.
"Well, you pray for them.." The lit.
tie girl then said, 10 Lord, bless the
poor, and make them fat If you cant"
| Harper's Bazaar.
"A Chicago man has spent $4,000
in fitting up his sitting-room; and
when his sons get old enough it is
probable that they will prefer to spend
half the night in the boys club-roon
containing couple of seventy-five-
cent card-tables, half-a-dozen broken
back chairs, and two-dollar -and-a
half stove. -Norristoyn Herald.
Mamma (coaxingly) Come, Rob
by, take your medicine now and then
jump into bed; that's good little
boy Robby-"I don't want to take
any medicine, ma" Father (who
knows how to govern children)-
',Robby, if you don't take your medi-
cine at once, you will be put to bed
without taking it at all. Chicago
Tribune.
| "A travelling theatrical company Of
seven members can convert themselves
into seventeen different persons lon
the progromme. Which is no more
remarkable than the fact that the viii
lain, who is shot full of holes and dies
in terrible agony, appears five minutes
later as his own son.-Drdke's TraueI-
ers' Magazine.
Among the Fashionables- MIR.
Swell (who has rented fashionable
apartment house)-"We needn't be
ashamed of this, my DEAR Mrs.
Swell-"No. indeed; it is perfectly
lovely, and such fashionable 10
calityr' Mr.. Swell-'That's tn,
; beauty of it. And, now, my dear. i
: YOU will send Perkins out for loaf o
bread and half pound Of butter w
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